InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2

Book Description

It's no mystery why
InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers
great tools-not least among them its sophisticated typographic
controls. Here to show you how to take advantage of them is the
first book devoted solely to that topic. Whether you're a graphics
pros migrating from InDesign's long-entrenched competitor
QuarkXPress or a hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length
projects, you'll appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on
everything typographic. Realizing that to take full advantage of
InDesign's typographic tools, you must understand the principles
guiding their use, author Nigel French addresses both the whys and
the hows of good typography. Using practical examples, and loads of
tips, Nigel provides a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's
type features, including the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning,
and its support for OpenType fonts. Starting with character formats
and then moving through paragraph formats, styles and effects, and
layouts, you'll have gained all the skills they need to produce
beautiful type by the end of the volume.